​Following the arrest of mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, efforts are underway to shed light on the sprawling network of supporters that allowed a 30-year hiatus since the last Cosa Nostra massacre, and in particular on the so-called “mafia”. bourgeoisie”, – writes Linkiesta, quoted by Rador.

Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia immediately made it clear that his office’s “attention” would be on this gray area. “I was referring to a circumstance that emerges from our investigations, as well as from historical and sociological studies and research.

“The mafia has always had a very close relationship with a part of society that, to put it simply, I defined as the mafia bourgeoisie,” the prosecutor explained to the daily Corriere della Sera.

“I am talking about the world of liberal professions, entrepreneurship, politics. Obviously, I am alluding to individual complicity, and I do not intend to generalize, but it is undeniable that the Cosa Nostra group has flourished, consolidated and spread so deeply in our country, and through this gray area, that golden mean, that sometimes he closed his eyes, pretending that does not see

And others instead had a co-protagonist in the criminal history of the country. I am not saying anything new. I am talking about the consolidated data obtained since the maxi process under the direction of Giovanni Falcone.

During such a long absence, “the complicity of certain social circles undoubtedly helped. It is clear that Messina Denaro enjoyed very wide support, not only from a certain bourgeoisie,” explains De Lucia. “A chapter should be written about favoritism, but I ask myself a few questions.

How is it possible that one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives underwent surgery and went to one of the city’s most famous clinics for months for consultations, and no one noticed until we intervened? Did anyone know and cover this? We want to get answers to these questions. This is what the citizens want as well.”

And then he assures: “We are certainly investigating the people who protected him, allowing him to be treated practically undisturbed until Monday in one of the most famous medical institutions in Palermo, we are investigating to understand who allowed him the comfortable standard of living that he had, and we will work to reconstruct his entire escape, not limited to the last period, to understand how Cosa Nostra rules.”

And in the daily newspaper “La Repubblica”, the former deputy prosecutor of Palermo Teresa Principato, on the other hand, talks about the possible concealment of Freemasonry. During his escape, Principato claims, “il padrino” from Castelvetrano could count on “a Masonic cover network that protected him all over the world.”

We’re not talking about “a man hiding on a farm, eating bread and ricotta like Bernardo Provenzano,” Principato says. “This is completely different. Besides being quite cultured, he loved the good life, he was a maniac of luxury. And he didn’t stay in the same place for too long. He traveled a lot, even abroad.” From Sicily to Venezuela, from England to Spain.

In Venezuela, for example, “there is a very extensive, complex Masonic reality, and certainly the circles attended by Messina Denaro, displaced Sicilians who ran a very prosperous furniture store, were Masonic. In England, Freemasonry is even chartered.

On the other hand, in Spain I have some doubts as to the Masonic character of the relations established by Messina Denaro with those who received him.’ But there is more information. “A collaborator of Masonic Justice spoke of a closed lodge founded by Messina Denaro himself, called ‘La Sicilia.’

There are other examples of indoor lodges, such as the Scontrino, which included people from all social levels. The same can be said about “La Sicilia”.

This relationship of his, according to former prosecutor Principato, “protected him from the danger of being found.” Naturally, “the protection could not be exclusively Masonic, and because Messina Denaro represented the hen with the golden eggs for the territory: its business ranged from large-scale distribution to wind turbines,” adds Principato.